The Journal - Patriot INDEPENDENT IN POLITICS Published Mondays and Thursdays at North Wilkesboro, North Carolina JULIUS C. HUBBARD?MRS. D. J. CARTER Publishers 1?S2?DANIEL X CARTER?1045 SUBSCRIPTION RATES: One Year $2.00 (In Wilkes and Adjoining Counties) One Year $3.00 (Outside Wilkes and And Adjoining Counties) Rates To Those In Service: One Year (anywhere) $2.00 Entered at the postoffice at North Wilkes Ooro, North Carolina, as Second-Class matter under Act of March 4, 1875. Thursday, May, V1947 Logical Location For Highway Office The State Highway and Public Works Commission in Raleigh last week decided to move the Eighth Division highway of fice from Lenoir to North Wilkesboro. Because of the geographical makeup of the division, North Wilkesboro is an ideal location. The division extends from For syth on the east and includes Caldwell on the western end. The highway division shops are locat ed at North Wilkesboro and the office is to be located on the same property. It is logical that the division office and high way shops would be in the same locality for the sake of efficiency. It is not practical for the highway di vision offices to be shifted around from county to county according to the resi dence of the commissioner representing the division. It is too great a task to move the office every few years, and it is too much to ask of the engineers and other personnel to be continually moving their residence. tldocf Control Continuous Fight -Citizens of the Yadkin Valley should be reminded that the fight for flood con trol has not been won and will not be fin ished until the retention dams are con structed and in operation. A fight is now under way in the econ omy-minded congress for an initial appro priation with which to begin the flood control work. It is up to the people of the Yadkin Valley to present to congressional com mittees facts which show that the invest ment for flood control would be sound and economical, and there are ample facts and figures to back up their demands for protection from floods. The initial victory was won last year when congress approved the allocation for flood control in the Yadkin Valley. But that is only one step and the real test comes in getting an appropriation for beginning the work. Representative C. B. Deane is pressing demands of the North Carolina delegation for an appropriation of two million dol lars this year. This would begin the work \ and subsequent appropriations in yearly sessions of congress would assure its com pletion. Continue the Work This is Clean Up Week in this commun ity. Much good has been accomplished despite all handicaps, but perhaps the greater benefit will come from educatibn of the people to the importance of keep ing up neat and attractive appearances. Scarcity of labor and materials has hampered the clean up-paint up cam paign. Some of the leading paint dealers have found difficulty in securing paint to meet present day demands. It has also been difficult for home owners to secure labor for repairs, plaptinfc, etc. But the work can become continuous, and all property owners and tenants are asked to keep in mind the clean up-paint up theme throughout the year and lose no opportunity to make their community a better place in which to live. A good memory test is trying to remem ber the things you were worrying about yesterday. Meeting Fire's Threat The President's Conference on Fire Prevention, which will meet May 6-8 in Washington, D. C., has a series of speci fic objectives. It will study building construction, ope ration and protection, with a view to find ing means of eliminating present dangers. It will consider the wide field of fire prevention education, with particular em phasis on instructional aides for schools and colleges. It will analyze the adequacy of fire fighting facilities and personnel, and make recommendations for needed im provement. It will explore the broad question of laws and law enforcement as they relate to fire prevention and fire safety. It will recommend a plan for obtaining organized, aggressive public support of fire prevention activity in all its phases. It will establish a program for continu ous research with respect to fire, which will provide information on which laws and regulations can be based. The Conference will mark the start of the most intensive drive against the fire menace ever undertaken. President Tru man called it to meet a grave and imme diate emergency. And it can do its job only if it receives the' widest possible pub lic support. Henry Wallace is quite right about freedom of speech not being dead in thp United States. Indeed, it's rearing to go in an effort to tell Henry something he ought to know.?Greensboro Daily News. In Los Angeles the other day 6 auto mobiles piled up in an accident at a street intersection. Any less number would doubtless have been considered a reflec tion on the supercolossality of the mu nicipality.?Greensboro Daily News. -THE EVERYDAY COUNSELOR By Rev. Herbert Spaugh, D. D. Character is caught, not taught. Parents should remember that in selecting schools for their children. They should further remember that even in this modern indus trialized world, character is more import ant than specialized training. I am constantly receiving letters of in quiry from business houses concerning young people who have applied to them for positions. Invariably it is the charac ter of the applicant with which they are concerned. Following character comes personal habits, associates, family back ground. All of this means that parents should be most careful in the selection of schools to which their children are sent, and should certainly know something of the teachers under whose influence they are. A letter from a parent seeking advice on a preparatory school on my desk now, and provokes this column. In the first place, it is my conviction that children, if they are going to college, should receive their pre-college education in schools at home if possible. The home influence, if it is good, should be retained as long as possible. Too many parents are sending their adolescent sons and daugh ters to boarding schools "to get theip out of the way," and to avoid parental obli gations in adolescence. But if the home is broken, and it is necessary to select a boarding school, then by all means one should be chosen where character train ing is emphasized, and where teaching of religion is a part of the curriculum. If the boy or girl is not going to college, but to a business school, the standing of the school in the community should be thoroughly investigated. Discover if the head of the school and faculty are "church people." Are they men and wom en of fine character? If the school takes the boy or girl away from home, be sure to investigate the boarding place and the character of those who live there. There are many schools where the ad ministration and faculty realize the im portance of character training, and place it foremost in their courses of study. It is during the first eighteen years of life that character is largely determined. It is caught, not taught, from parents and teachers, from associates. It is not learned from textbooks. The best textbook on character is still the Bible. Its place here is not questioned. abnormal BSURDITIES ? iitt. ? v.': DWIGHT NICHOLS etal %JpS5, Sv. _ T PAYS TO ADVERTISE? Sign In A Chicago butcher shop window: "No long wait?No ihort wait.'' And In a signmaker's >hop: "I was making signs be !ore I could talk." Sign on a little market In Van Horn, Texas: "We do no busi ness on Sunday?and darn little luring the week." Sign on the door of the Lyons Mews office In Kansas City: "Don't abuse the editor?you nay be crazy yourself some day." ?Help Wanted: "Girls and men wanted on life preservers to bring our boys back." Worcester (Mass.) Telegram. For Rent: "Large bedroom be tween two trolleys."?Shreve E>ort (La.) Journal. Good Things to Eat: "Curtains nicely laundered, cash and car ry."?Jacksonville (Fla.) Times. Lost: "Pay envelope at Rock ngham race track Thursday aft srnoon." ? Haverville (Mass.) Gazette. Stolen: "$25 reward for infor mation leading to the arrest of the polecat who stole my rod 'rom my car in front of Cowboy Bar."?Jackson's Hole (Wyo.) Courier. VOT THERE ANY MORE? A salesman taking his bride South on their honeymoon visited i hotel where they boasted of their fine honey. "Sambo," he asked the colored waiter, "where's my honey?" "Ah don' know, boss," replied Samibo, eyeing the lady cautious ly, "she don' work here no mo'." SOUGHT BETTER PLACE? He: (At the movies) "Can you see all right?" She: "Yes." He: "Is there a draught on you?" She: "No." He: "Is your seat comfort able?" She: "Yes." He: "Change places with me, will you?" KSEfW ABpUT ERROR,? The Department of Taxation iwwitou a. lypoa moome tax re turn from a bachelor who listed one dependent son. The examin er returned the blank with a pen ciled notation?"This must be a stenographic error." Presently th*> blank came back with the added pencil notation, "You're telling me!" OBLITERATED? She was Insulted when some body offered her a drink, but be ing a lady, she swallowed the Insult. APPETITE SECONDARY? A man 1b getting along in years when he pays more attention to the food than he does to the wait resses. Sympathy la what One girl of fers another in exchange for de tails. BAD COMPANY?^ A somewhat drunk G.I., hailed before his commanding officer, offered this excuse: "I got into bad company. I had a quart of whisky and my three buddies didn't drink." The work performed by bees in pollinating crops on North Carolina farms if worth more than ten times the value of the honey produced, according to W. A. Stephen, extension beekeeper at State College. nUYKH North Carolina, Wilkes County. The undersigned, fied as administrator, the estate of John i ceased, late of Wilkes f wont; i, having ang tor, C. T. AJg W. Gaither, * this is to notify all persons claims against said estate to prt sent them to the undersigned a< ministrator at 114 Patton Stree Morganton, N. C., on or befoi the 7th day of April, 1948, c this notice will be plead in bar c their recovery. All parties it debted to said estate will mai prompt payment to the undei signed administrator. This 7th day of April, 1947. ALBERT WELLONS, Administrator of estate of Joh W. 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